On Aug 28, 2014, at 10:59 AM, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The truth here is that we NEED to have a blob-free version (libreboot), so I >> have a lot of work ahead of me :) > > How much time and money for the RE effort did you have again? It needs > to be a lot. Were I you I would not expect much help from the vendor > to RE their code :-)
Time was measured in months. Not weeks nor years. Funds varied, which is why we are gathering interested developers to get some quotes to propose funding the effort. > And you're still going to need the microcode blob, almost certainly, > unless you don't like having a working main board. We require blob-free and a working main board, so this sounds like a really challenging RE effort indeed! > If you NEED blob-free, you may need to go ARM. We cannot easily (actually it would be quite impossible) to move from the Intel hardware at this point. Todd. -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
